* Posts by OFI

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PayPal UK titsup

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FAIL

PayPal

I call shenaningans. Worked fine at 7:50am and works fine now :-P

These weren't BT ISP reg users were they? RS has been failing for a few days on BT..

Controversial mobile directory fails on launch

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Good

I hope it fails some more. Bad enough when old school 'friends' get hold of my number.

12 of the best... mice

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12 of the best?

12 of the best? Yet the Regs own ratings put the Logitech VX Revolution above 7 of them at 90%: http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/08/31/review_logitech_vx_revolution/

Not to mention it was reviewed at £60 and can often be had for less than £30

Looks like a collection of silly gimmicks to me bar the odd couple (including the stupid £75 one..)

Microsoft set to reveal Windows 7 pricing mid-June

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Win 7

@wibbilus maximus

Forget Windows Mail and just install Thunderbird. Job done.

Start/taskbar can be set to act like more like previous versions if you wish. Once you get used to it though you realise the new version is more efficient and yes i'm aware it requires a whole extra click.

No you really DON'T have to use the Live programs ;-) How is MS forcing you to? It didn't even come with Windows Live Messenger I had to opt to install it.

@Steve

I find Win 7s explorer a much better improvement over Vistas. Vista never seems to give you the shortcuts to the folders you want. Win 7 does a better job but I still think XPs explorer is better if you use a lot of varying folder locations.

I haven't had any need to open so many Windows myself :-)

Fox terminates The Sarah Connor Chronicles

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Unhappy

Summer Kiss of Death

@Law

Well I hope she hasn't cursed The Unit too!

But yes 4400 another show killed off before its time.

The problem with PVRs is everyone skips the ads. If they know people are using PVRs on a show then so will the advertisers. So there goes any incentive to carry on.

With the rise of PVRs (and sites such as HULU) the business model has really got to change soon.

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PVRs

"I liked it, a lot, like fishman, was the only thing I begged for space on the Sky+ from my wife. Meant there was one less space for all that reality-car-crash-TV tripe."

Just one of the reasons it was cancelled. PVRs apparently, as they are not counted towards ratings.

Move a show to the Friday night slot and everyone puts it on the PVR and goes out.

Plus like someone else said sci-fi shows just don't get the same size userbase.

Such a shame but not a surprise :-(

Fox does have a terrible habit of doing this.

Napster crossbreeds streaming, download plans

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US > UK

Nice.. so they get it for $5/mo in the US and we are stuck with paying £9.95/mo or roughly 3x the price.

Spotify need not worry yet.

If Napster came here at that price I think it would be hard to NOT sign up!

Beeb tech boss seeks to expand TV licence online

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Practicality?

hmm good luck proving and collecting fees on that one unless they do put a login system on.

But then as the TV License guys can't even work out that if one person in a house has a license then the partner doesn't need it I can't see a new system adding onto that working too well.

Make it too much hassle and people will just use other methods like every other website that gets too ambitious

Adblock developer offers 'please unblock me' tag to sites

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AVF Forums

Noticed AVF Forums somehow detects the use of Adblocker and displays a begging message for you to disable it for their site. As they put their ads in tables and the begging message is of similar size then you might as well disable it!

This won't work, it is a nice idea but there are the few who have ruined it for everyone else by plastering sites in intrusive adverts. If there is an option added it will just be abused.

BT chief: People don't need fibre to the home

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Downstream?

All this talk about increasing download speeds (whilst also increasing caps!) What about increasing our feable upload speeds?

I forget how slow my upload speeds are up until the point I try to upload even small (<100MB) files to my web server then it feels like i've single handedly killed the internet.

Pirate Bay loses trial: defendants face prison time, hefty fines

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Uh oh..

Wow they were pretty confident they were going to win. Time to dump all those torrents..

Brown pledges to make Britain's drivers greener

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Quadrocycles?

So are these things as pictured still being classed as Quadrocycles as the G-Wizz was?

In order to bypass all of the safety features and crash tests car manufacturers have worked for years towards..

Compromising safety just to LOOK like you are doing something for the environment ;-) Lol @ the 100% clean idea..

Battery powered cars are a stupid old idea, so probably just about the right thing for our government to be interested in..

Google to fund 'video Street View' for Central London

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INteresting..

As someone who lives OUTside of London this sounds pretty cool :-D

Not sure how i'd feel about it if I was a resident though..

This could bring e-stalking to a WHOLE new level...

Acer sued for shipping Vista-book with GB of memory

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Flame

Vista = Dog

Nice trolling there El Reg ;-)

Tesla unwraps Model S

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Old news?

These photos were leaked a couple of days ago.

Don't believe the price at all, the Roadster kept creeping up in price right from the start too. Didn't it end up near at 100k or something silly?

Brussels: Old-school lightbulbs to be gone by 2012

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Stop

Time to stock up

All very well for your average light bulb but what about spot lamps on dimming circuits? The only ones I have found cost a huge amount more then the 'old-school' type, give out less light and are less effective on a dimmer.

O2 to axe iPhone prices?

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Contract Price

Great, now how about the price of the contracts drops a bit? For any sort of sensible plan it costs an arm and 3 toes.

Land of cheese adopts internet download tax

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Payment

@Jake: I thought the idea of this 'tax' was to add it onto the cost of ISP subscriptions?

This is a pretty daft tax though..

Apple fights iPhone unlocking (again)

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Paris Hilton

lol Apple

On EFFs side here.. it's ridiculous.

If MS locked down Windows to only allow Microsoft applications then all hell would break loose.

Virgin Media trials longer bandwidth throttling

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LOL

So glad i'm not with Virgin. How can people cope with these limits? Sure sometimes I might not download much at all but for instance the other night I went on Xbox Live and downloaded 2 demos and an update for Burnout Paradise. In total 3.6GB.

So you would hit the throttle only part way through the download :-/

MP wants Welsh text on ID cards

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Paris Hilton

Place Names

@Norfolk Enchants Paris:

Except everyone calls it Llanfair, it only had the long name given to it for comical tourism purposes.

Welsh place names in general aren't so long, there are long ones and short ones just as there is everywhere else :-)

Irish ISP Eircom in 'three strike' filesharer crackdown

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TOR?

To the Anonymous Coward:

I thought rule #1 was no P2P?

Time to axe Microsoft's Zune

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Happy

Zune UK

@zenkaon

That's because it's not officially sold over here. I got mine for £99 a long time ago.

Even now I can't replace it with an iPod of similar spec without spending double the money.

They really need to sort the software out though. Stop tying it down to a PC with so many system files so a portable version could be used. Sort out the syncing issues (which it keeps saying it has fixed..)

Most of all sort out the stupid ID3 tag problems, fussiest app I have ever used EVER. Got a compilition album? Oh that must be 40 seperate albums then..

The HTML that says no - Joi Ito's pitch for a theft-free web

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Database Size?

I have a feeling a database of the size required by this nonsense would be a tad hard to manage..

Swiss cops sniff out dope plantation on Google Earth

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Link

Anyone have a Google Maps link? :-D

Microsoft IE8 rolls out the astroturf

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Malware

"Can you hear that? Malware writers the world over just let out a massive cheer."

LOL good point.

Personally i'm all for this as there are rumours we may move to IE8 at work once the final release is out (up from IE6..)

Just thinking to myself a minute ago.. what is in this for MS? The browser has always been free, surely it doesn't sell OSs. Where is the profit in developing the IE product?

Firefox works well for me anyway :-)

O2 and Be customers suffer network congestion

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Unhappy

hmm slow p2p now

Well to follow on from my earlier post for the first time ever i'm not maxing my line out on newsgroups. Fluctuating wildly between 350 and 550KB/s rather than the steady 750KB/s. Line isn't slowing down as i'm still browsing pretty quick, usually maxxing out on newsgroups kills any other net tasks.

Still even with the congestion it's around 20 times better than the moderatey of ISPs

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Streaming

Noticed problems this week also. Whilst P2P seems fine still streaming from sites (Youtube, Mogulus) is terrible unless I am able to leave it to buffer away for a while. Games were skippign about a bit online last night but I wasn't sure if that was my connection or not.

Still I can max out usenet at any time during the day if I needed to.

iPhone app warns of driving restrictions

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Pointless?

What a pointless application. For less than 50p a little common sense suggests using a handheld phone whilst driving can be dangerous, texting (!!?!) is just ridiculous!

Some people still think they're 'sticking it to the man' by using their phones..

Microsoft smooths Windows 7 snafu

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Install Size

Few comments on the install size here. The install requires about 7GB HDD space, anything else is the hibernation file and pagefile. I installed mine to an 8.2GB VMWare image and have a little over 1GB space..

Would have made sense for MS to put this out on torrents (who knows maybe they did?) but after trying the official download which threatened a 13 hour download I had to look elsewhere!

BT cuts 0870 charges

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At last

Hurrah!

Now O2 need to sort it out with the 0800 numbers like others have said!

M&S to sell Elonex netbooks

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Meh

I'm guessing it will be the Elonex One T http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/07/09/elonex_unveils_second_scc/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elonex_ONEt

In which case it's just not worth the £100, it might have been when they first came up with the idea but with the EEEPC 701 selling around £135 with double the spec it's a no go.

Virgin Media to dump neutrality and target BitTorrent users

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lol Virgin

Saw this coming, every time Virgin 'improve the service' (i.e. 50mbps lines) they introduce some other new cap

Man trademarks ;-) emoticon

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Despair..

Just tried to 'buy' 999 'frownys' from Despairs website, but you can't...

"Sorry, but there's a $19.90 order minimum. Dr. Kersten isn't running an "Everything's 99 Cents" franchise, he's building an empire. And he can't keep himself in the latest gear with a bunch of $1 orders... "

I think it's a scam..

Employees sue for unpaid Windows Vista overtime

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15 Minutes

15 Minute boot time? have a laugh. Must be some pretty old tech for it to possibly take that long.

Main BBC channels to be broadcast live via web

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TVCatchup

Good idea, TV Catchup has been doing this for a while with several more channels, quite handy sometimes. To be honest though it's easier to have all of the channels on one page though so i'll probably stick to TVCatchup rather than use BBCs site :-D

PlusNet customer invited to opt-in to BT's Phorm trial

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Paris Hilton

Plusnet bad after BT?

"This is why i left plusnet after they where bought by BT, they turned into a bunch of muppets. "

You MUST be kidding? I have been with several ISPs (including AOL) and PlusNet were by far the worst. Joined up with a "high bandwidth package" to find my download cap reduced to 50% within a couple of months to "improve my service" which was followed by constant bad speeds and dropouts. PlusNet refused to let me out of the contract without a huge bill.

Technical support? What technical support?

BT on the other hand have actually been one of the best ISPs and I have only gone elsewhere to get more bandwidth.

Warrington first to get Virgin Media 50Mb/s

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3GB throttle

Wow so basically download one film rental or a large beta demo and that's you capped for the rest of the day. LOL.

UK as a whole really needs to get with the times VM really isn't helping..

Microsoft turns Live Searchers into gamblers

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Gates Halo

LIVE Worldwide?

Is this even open to the UK? Most of these Microsoft LIVE pushing things seem to be pretty limited. The games where you win points and claim prizes was limited to the US. The LIVE search/ebay discount is limited again to the US only.

I'll just use Google thanks ;)

BT's third Phorm trial starts tomorrow

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Dropping BT

A lot of people here saying "Ask for your MAC code" "Drop BT now!"

But it's just not that easy, Bt haven't been proven to be doing anything wrong (yet!) so leaving them is going to cost serious money if you are still within a contract.

I'm only a month into my contract and the TOS say I must pay any outstanding months if I quit.

£25/mo x 11 remaining months + £25 for the BT Homehub.

This is not cool though would be nice to make a move over to O2.

I also don't want to be blocked from peoples websites :-(

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